A Conversation with Yu Menglong about Teresa Teng

Yu En: Teng says she would like to invite questions from online followers, so that people can remember her—something like Voices from the Other Shore.

Ariel: We shouldn’t call her Teng; she’s from an older generation than us…

Yu En: Let’s call her Sister Teng instead. She refers to herself as Teng.

Sister Teng wants to know whether her fans still remember her. During the days when she was trapped in the hotel, she received no news at all. (Please refer to Teresa Teng’s Experience of Persecution.)

But I’m not sure whether this would work. Sister Teng misses her fans deeply, but so much time has passed.

Ariel: Of course she’s welcome! So many people remember her. I’ve even covered her songs—I’m one of her fans.

As long as Yu agrees, because “Yu En Transmission” is Yu’s team’s waystation in the human world.

Yu En: In one of Yu’s past lives, he was her younger brother. He says he is Sister Teng’s fan, and he was her fan in his previous life as well. Sister Teng was also an artist in her previous life.

Sister Teng says that she must first help Yu En Transmission. After gaining merit, she can become a spiritual practitioner in her next life.

Honestly, I feel terribly sorry for her. I could see the reality of her life, but I did not know she had been forced into it.

Sister Teng, I’m sorry. Knowing that she was forced makes my heart ache so deeply.

Ariel: The experiences we go through in reincarnation are not a life’s true essence. The selves we are in reincarnation are not our true selves.

You are already helping clear her name—what is there to apologize for? We should seize the time and continue helping her seek justice.

Sister Teng can provide us with so much truth. Nearly all Chinese people are her fans!

How did Sister Teng live through more than 30 years there? Was she trapped there for 30 years without food or water?

Yu En: Sister Teng says perhaps that was the suffering she was meant to endure. And the hotel was placed under a powerful barrier by the Chinese Communist Party; ordinary spiritual practitioners could not break it.

Ariel: Perhaps the time has come for these victimized artists to have an opportunity for vindication and salvation amid the great cleansing in the higher realms.

Some people do not understand: Sister Teng did much charity work during her lifetime, so why was she still trapped? Why did other gods, Buddhas, or bodhisattvas not save her?

Yu En: Yu believes we cannot judge only by this lifetime. Otherwise, why would there be so many stories in the human world of good people not receiving good rewards?

The higher realms see a person’s journey across many lifetimes, not merely this one.

If someone did many harmful things in a previous life but is a great philanthropist in this life, then after their merits and wrongs are weighed, their merits may still not offset their wrongs. That person may therefore endure great hardship in this life.

Yu says that Sister Teng carried karmic burdens accumulated over many lifetimes, compounded by deliberate persecution by the Chinese Communist Party and curses carried out through people with supernatural abilities.

If Sister Teng had not genuinely practiced in a righteous spiritual path while she was alive, then there would have been no master or righteous deity in the higher realms to alter her fate. In that case, it would have been very difficult for her to escape this disaster.

In fact, modern people’s attitudes toward gods and Buddhas differ greatly from those of ancient people. Ancient people revered gods and Buddhas in order to cultivate their hearts, improve their character, elevate their spiritual realm, and leave the earthly world to return to heaven sooner. Modern people, by contrast, pray to gods and Buddhas for romance, wealth, protection from misfortune, and solutions to life’s problems—so they can enjoy a better life in this world.

But gods and Buddhas will not satisfy such human desires. How could a person avoid repaying the wrongs they have committed simply by praying to gods and Buddhas? Only spiritual cultivation can change one’s destiny—and that is possible only for those who genuinely cultivate themselves.

Ariel: What is Sister Teng doing now with Yu’s Dragon God clan?

Yu En: Yu says she is helping care for the Dragon clan’s babies. She loves children very much.

Ariel: When Sister Teng has finished her work, she is warmly welcome to come and share her thoughts with everyone.